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Bear Grylls Quotes

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Bear Grylls

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: explorer
Nationality: british
Birth: June 7, 1974

Topics

Good Adventure Comfort Zone Think

Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

John Astin

Tough Upside Down Doing Down Take

On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.

John McCain

Wealth Nation Resources Corrupt Rob

I think outing people is fear-based: the fear that if we don't out them, it will make things harder for all of us. It's important to treat people with love.

Robert Gant

Love Fear People Treat Think Will

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

Matthew Macfadyen

Life Work Yourself People Luck You

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Ama Ata Aidoo

Age Teacher Me Career Why Knowing

My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.

Amanda de Cadenet

Day Action Every Day Feminism See

I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

Roger Federer

Work Good Time Me Think Pressure

It was hard for me to leave the nest, but my mom is super proud of me. She said, 'You became independent really quickly, and I'm so proud of you,' but she misses me all the same.

Mirai Nagasu

Me Mom Proud You Said Independent

I'm kind of a subtle person.

Lizz Wright

Person Kind Subtle

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

Christopher Lee

Country Years Rule Saddest Romania

My wife cooks, I clean. Then I go to practice, come home, and take a two hour nap. I wake up, shave my head, then it's time to ball.

Chauncey Billups

Home Time Wife Practice Wake Up Go

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

Christopher Columbus

Day Purpose Down Will Write Saw